Hier ga ik de evolutie in de opmaak van mijn 1974 standaard 1200 kever laten zien.

donderdag, januari 31, 2008

first night on the job

We didn't work long but the trend is set.
If you look at previous pictures you will see the hole is patched up airtight. We wouldn't do it like this in a resto but it had to go fast.

I started on the wiring loom too. It took me a lot of head scratching to get started but I think it will go smoot from here on.

dinsdag, januari 29, 2008

more parts

An update, This is my friend and partner in crime. On goal this year, leave lots of rubber, smoke and empty beerbottles and offcourse while doing so, keep our girlfriends happy. A picture of our car too. It's gotta be on the road mid march. Anybody in coubt? We aren't.

Well, the point is to make use amounts of torque and horsepower. There is no fun in that if you can't get it to the ground. The 180 mm clutch would never cope with that amount of power so we went for a 200mm clutch. A normal one, when this doesn't keep up we will upgrade to a reinforced pressure plate later.

These are valve springs. Because we will probably rev a little higher then a normal engine in normal circonstances we have to add these springs to keep the valves from flaoting.

I'm sorry for the blurry picture. These are all very thin iron rings. You put them between the differential cover and the diff itself to add preload on the spidergears. This makes your normal differential think it is a limited slip diff. When this sounds like chinese to you, I'll explain it as I do it.

These are parts to solidmount the trans. We are gonna modify it to ad a thor brace. For those of you who don't know it keep watching. Solidmounting the trans is just one of the things to do to keep the wheels from bouncing up and down on hard accelerations.

This little piece screws in the oil pressure gallery. Normaly it is used to ad an oiltemperaturesensor. We will use it to tap oil for the turbo.

We got most off these parts at the kaagkevers speedshop The rest of the parts we got at Frankys We like the service of both shops so maybe you should try them.